A skills-oriented, practitioner perspective on strategy, thoroughly updated with current research and concepts.In today’s economy, gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage is harder than ever. Strategic Management captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills and concepts with unrivaled clarity, helping readers develop their own cutting-edge …
This text equips readers with the strategic concepts they will need to know as we face issues such as climate change, global warming and energy availability.This thirteenth edition provides an array of timely, well-researched, and class-tested cases—nineteen of which are new or revised.
Introduce strategic management concepts using the market-leading text that sets the standard for the most complete, relevant presentation. Written by highly respected experts and prestigious scholars, Hitt/Ireland/Hoskisson's STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: COMPETITIVENESS AND GLOBALIZATION, CONCEPTS, 9E provides an intellectually rich, yet thoroughly practical, analysis of strategic management concepts …
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"The Business of Projects breaks new ground by showing how leading businesses create and implement projects to drive strategy and innovation. Projects are used to coordinate activities with customers and suppliers and ensure that organisations become more dynamic and adaptable. This book extends the resource-based view of the firm to focus on the business lessons learned from the design and pro…
"In Strategy for Chaos, Professor Colin Gray develops and applies the theory and scholarship on the allegedly historical practice of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA), in order to improve our comprehension of how and why strategy 'works'." "This is a brilliantly researched and thought-provoking book by one of the key thinkers in the field, and will be essential reading for all scholars…
There are two types of security community: those that create a political community between themselves by institution building (such as the EU); and those that are pluralistic and are aligned through shared values, responsiveness to each others needs and policy goals by their political elites (such as the UK and Ireland or the USA and Canada). Bellamy seeks to examine the impact of the developme…
Asserts that states pursue social actions to serve self-identity needs, even when these actions compromise their physical existence. This book analyzes three forms of social action, sometimes referred to as 'motives' of state behavior (moral, humanitarian, and honor-driven) through an ontological security approach.
Attempts to bring together a variety of contributions on the ideology of neo-liberal globalisation as a new phase of global capitalism-cum-imperialism. This book addresses the diverse economic structures of the global periphery and tries to deduce lessons on the global crisis conjuncture of global capital in governing the world.